This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Dr. Yeunjae Lee, Dr. Enzhu Dong, and Dr. Ruoyu Sun examined internal communication about environmental issues and the impact it has on pro-environment behaviors among employees. That is, when the organization creates internal messaging regarding the environment, how does this impact whether employees intend … Continue reading How Can Environmental Sustainability Promote Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviors?
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Dr. Rebecca Greenbaum and colleagues analyzed how underlying feelings of fear or shame may impact employed parents’ productivity in the workplace. An online survey of 201 individual working parents and 259 sets of spouses who were both working parents was conducted. Key findings include: 1.) Parental identity threat was defined as a blended work-family experience where … Continue reading What Happens When Parental and Professional Identities Collide?
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Dr. Shan Xu and colleagues examined the adoption attitudes of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace over time. They studied the adoption process through the lens of the diffusion of innovations theory, which explains how different types of people and groups adopt technologies over … Continue reading Diffusion of Innovations Theory: Analyzing Employee Attitudes Toward Adoption of AI
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Dr. Pok Man Tang and colleagues’ study examined how employees felt after spending considerable time during their workday interacting with artificial intelligence (AI). The researchers proposed that the more workers interacted with artificial intelligence during their work life, the stronger they would feel the … Continue reading How AI Impacts Employee Social Behavior
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Dr. Jian Peng, Dr. Qi Nie, and Dr. Yucong Cheng examined how team abusive supervision created team distrust in the supervisor and eventually induced team behavioral resistance to organizational change. Researchers collected three-wave survey data from 124 teams in four organizations that were part … Continue reading Why do Teams Exhibit Behavioral Resistance to Change? Examining the Negative Impact of Team Abusive Supervision
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Dr. Dejun Tony Kong and Dr. Liuba Y. Belkin examined how the feeling of being neglected by employers could bring negative implications on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. A four-wave survey of 111 employees across 40 states in the United States … Continue reading How Feeling Neglected Impacts Employees’ Relationships and Feelings Toward Work
Author, Title and Publication Agerdal-Hjermind, A. (2014). Organizational blogging: a case study of a corporate weblog from an employee perspective. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 19 (1), 34 – 51. Summary This study examined the usage and implications of blogging in a corporate communication context from an employee’s perspective. The author considered the blog as … Continue reading Organizational Blogging: A Case Study of a Corporate Weblog from an Employee Perspective